Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

I WEATHER Mild Sailing-Favorable Yesterday' Iligfi Iv Temperatures 85459 82-79 7:22 am 7:16 pm High 3:45 am Tomorrow Iiiwv 5:59 pin raw ihtisti Pallet 86TH YEAR NO 218 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS TUESDAY OCTOBER 1 19H8 Went Mt TUI 4fll O'lW OWN TU) 4M1 32 PAGES -PRICE TEN CENTS Dock Strike UN Gives Priority To Mideast Israeli Minister Is Unimpressed After Rusk Visit Humphrey Would Stop Bombing as Ships Coasts Halts Along President Starts Loyal Action To End Shutdown A strike by 75000 longshoremen including 300 to 400 local dock workers that could halt most cargo shipments in ports from Brownsville to Maine began early today but it was expected to be short-lived President Johnson started legal machinery to head off a long crippling shutdown by appointing a three-man board of inquiry under provisions of the Taft-1 Iart-ley Act He instructed the board i to conduct hearings today and there the habor master report-report or take action by to- ed morrow I port Brownsville has two I LA Casls Off Johnson's Policies SALT LAKE CITY (AD-Ht-ber II Humphrey dramatically moving his precdennl campaign from the shadow of Johnson administration war policy pledged Monday night he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam an acceptable risk for Humphrey in a nationwide television speech on foreign policy expressed helief a bombing halt could lead success in the negotiations and a shorter war" Strongrr Statement The vice president slightly toughened his statement as lie delivered it from the way it was written The text said would be willing to stop the bombing" Speech Reaction Page 16B Store Campaign News On Pages 8 I The strike was called yesterday after Undersecretary of Labor James Reynolds announced at noon that no agreement on terms of a new contract could be reached between the International Longshoremen's Association and the New locals with about 50 members each some of whom live as far away as Kingsville The locals have not been very active in past months Orange and Beaumont also re ported that no ships were in port there At Houston eight ships were York Shipping Association in New York berthed at public facilities late At Midnight 'last night Six of those were still Unions at ports along the At- loading cargo hoping to depart lantic and Gulf Coasts were no-1 before the midnight deadline tified later in the afternoon that President Speaks the strike would begin at mid night when the contract expired The Associated Press quoted President announce- A spokesman at the harbor ment as saying master's office here said no ship would be affected in the Fort of Corpus Christi until about midnight today when the Liberian cargo ship Deborah is scheduled to dock economists estimate that the strike would cost about 570 million a day in terms of Imports and exports and that wage losses for longshoremen and seamen would be about $2 million a battleship which Monday liegan bombardment off Ihe North Vietnamese coast Officials said new barrels are needed after about 300 rounds are fired (AP Wirephoto) The only other ship in portday The strike would have RIFLE FOR TIIE NEW JERSEY A replacement for the 16-inch guns on the battleship New Jersey awaited shipment Monday at Los Angeles harbor It is one of 33 extra barrels to lie sent to the Phil-lippines for eventual mounting on the reconditioned jNew Guns Hit Reds But Humphrey in his delivery said would stop the bombing" Humphrey added in his prepared remarks he Ihe best protection for our troops" The vice president however appeared to add a modifier He said that in the risk" and taking action" as president he would place key importance on or indirect by deed or of Communist willingness to restore the Demilitarized Zone between the North and South Ihe government of North Vietnam were to show bad faith" he added would reserve the right to rc-umc the bombing" Humphrey was said to feel his UNITED NATIONS NY (AP) The diplomatic spot light centered on the Middle East Monday Secretary of State Dean Rusk conferred separately with Israeli Foreign Minister Abia Khan and Secretary-General Thant in the opening of a scries of high-level huddles Eban talked for 75 minutes with Rusk at the US mission to the United Nations Eban told reporters afterward no Big Four guarantee could substitute for a negotiated peace agreement with the Arabs No Great Merit do not see any great merit in it" he added had a very detailed Eban told reporters but he gave no indication wheth er he had placed any specific requests before the US secretary of state Israel has been seeking purchase of 50 latest model US jets to bulwark its armed forces A Big Four guarantee was part of a peace plan reported being pushed by the Soviet Union It has been rejected by Lsrael external guarantee can be a substitute for a direct resolution of the problem between the Arab states and Israel" he said Middle East is not an area of international protection" He said Rusk reiterated President Johnson's views that a solution should be reached through UN-sponsored negotiations Summit Proposed talk with Thant lasting more than an hour covered Thant's proposal for a Big Four summit meeting Vietnam and Czechoslovakia Rusk arrived in New York Sunday for a 10-day stay and a series of meetings with about 80 foreign ministers Including Arab leaders who are gathering in New York for the 23rd session of the General Assembly General policy debate opens Wednesday In advance of the Eban Rusk meeting Israeli sources discounted reports that Eban had in his pocket precise proposals for a Middle East peace settlement These Informants made clear that Israel was placing first emphasis on safeguarding its frontiers in any settlement with the Arabs Eban will deal with general principles rather than go into territorial matters when he addresses the assembly on Oct 8 the sources added US Position The US position was that it still hoped that Gunnar Jarring Thant's Swedish special envoy would work out a clan along the lines set out in a Security Council resolution last November But US sources added that the United States was open to any constructive new ideas Rusk talked for 65 minutes with Thant and told reporters afterward it was a and interesting" session The United States has reacted negatively to proposal that Rusk Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart and French Foreign Minister Michel Debre arrange for a Big Four meeting while in New York Rusk did not appear to rule out the subject when he meets privately with Gromyko Debre and Stewart but chances for Sec MIDEAST Page 16A some severe implications for our balance of payments" Seven times in the past 21 years the Taft-Hartley Law has been similarly used by the federal government to require the longshoremen to return to work for an 80-day cooling off period It thus appeared certain that a strike would last at most only two or three days The first step in the Taft-Hartley procedure which Johnson took yesterday provides for the board of Inquiry to determine whether a settlement is unlikely If the board agrees this so the President asks the at-Itomey general to seek a court was a tanker which would not be affected by the strike Get Organized A local union spokesman said last night that no pickets would be up at the port docking facilities until sometime this morning because the locals here would take advantage of the lull to shipping to get organized Locals on strike in Corpus Christi include Nos 1224 and 1225 comprised of men who actually put cargo onto ships Nos 1280 and 1281 made up of warehousemen (men who unload car go from rail cars into sheds at the port) and No 1692 clerks and checkers theiis 2700-PoimmI Shells Hammer Three Targets SHEW CONFIDENT DEADLINE News Page 4A IB Son-ate Leader Mike indicated Monday expects the 1968 congressional session to end by indication came as put through an emergency to permit federal continue in business though their regular bills have not for the current resolution containing emergency authority expires at midnight Senate passage of measure cleared it Johnson who is sign it at onre authority expires One grain ship and a string of I injunction for the cooling off pe-ore barges that might have been rad-affected by the strike left Port The -m a a arbitrate-Brownsville before the deadline'! board is headed by David and no other ships were in port' See STRIKE Page ll ABOARD USS NEW JERSEY off Vietnam The great battleship New Jersey came out of moth- balls with a vengeance Monday hurling shells from the South China Sea at Norlh Vietnamese EE from ut'mniMrdlinn targets 12 miles away She fired rounds from her 16-ineh guns in three missions during the day plus 45 rounds from her 5-inch secondary battery There was no answering fire More Vietnam New policy White House Silent In Washington the White House declined comment on Humphrey's change of course In Detroit an aide to Richard Nixon said the GOP presidential candidate would have to Is on Page 3B 46 In Truck One Dies Air observers reported four automatic weapons positions! Hie Thing yoii Mexican Army Slarls Campus Exit MFvJCO CITY (AP) Troops who since Sept 18 have oc-cupied the University of Mexico's autonomous campus began to pull out Monday The force estimated at about 1300 began to dimb into a row of troop trucks parked on the campus near the university stadium where the Olympic Games will open Oct 12 Before that 500 women staged of mothers" along Paseo de la Reforma Boulevard the downtown commercial area protesting government treatment of students Their dress ranged from the lack weeds of mourning to night orange go-go boots worp iy one attractive young girl Many of the appeared to be in their teens They carried signs and banners Their march from the Monument to Mexican Motherhood at Avenida Insurgents to the Chamber of Deputies in the heart of the older part of the city was the first organized demonstration to take place in three days-days of relative calm in the wake of student disturbances as the city prepares fix the 1968 Olympic Games The disturbances started in was advised July and by mid-August students claimed 32 of their number had died in dashes with riot police and soldiers The government maintained no one had died In the latest outbreak of violence after the army occupied the University of Mexico Sept 18 at least 15 persons by unofficial count died between Sept 20 and Sept 24 Student demands to the regime of President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz include firing of top police offidals disbanding of the riot police reaffirmation of student autonomy financial re-dresse for persons injured in the rioting release of student prisoners taken during the rioting and repeal of antisubversion laws MAX OF Washington WASHINGTON Democratic Mansfield he still Od 12 The the Montanan the Senate resolution agencies to even money been passed fiscal year A previous the Monday the new to President expected to The new Oct 12 Of jsl v1 WASHINGTON weterai grant Monday for Renewal John Young advised Secretary ban Weaver told proved the The on the north Street on Street on Bowie Avenue and Laredo west and souri-Pacific The area residential families will ed Under must safe An been allocated of these The original asked for SAN ANTONIO til A horrifying lung choking day in a closed rental truck resulted Monday in death for one and hospitalization for a dozen other Mexican nationals who police said were part of a 46-man load of illegal entrants bound for Chicago The dozen admitted to Robert Green hospital were treated for heat prostration and near suffocation Five were admitted in critical condition San Antonio patrolmen Jack Adamson and Robert Rudewick said they discovered the truck backed into the open doors of a garage in the west side of town and described the scene as Bexar County ambulance service operator Bill Lane moved the truck and the helpless Mexican nationals were quickly taken to the hospital in a half dozen ambulances flooding the emergency facilities of the hos- As the sweat soaked men Pttol- trentfffrafi tarn? aroad 0non said Herbert emm two oiiccs Youngstown Ohm the observer Klein chief press aide tsn MIIUnnT'sueriment the spotter plane i Nixon has said he won spell j6 MtIUnn Experiment The Marine MaJ john 011l his pn ncWnUntions Reactivation of the 56000-ton dark of Omaha Neb told 33 with North Vietnam hecause he New Jersey in August 1967 was newsmen aboard the battleship has said afraid it would 'a $50 million experiment The nts jed shook when the big shells v-i-rt peace talks new going on in jNavy is trying to disprove a expkidcd Paris i After mission ihe New! Humphrey trailing Nixon 1 too large and targe1 Is too lew to jemy KUn iy)SSi Cmdr Peter in the polls has been urged by Million 7an nf ltonne of Winona NJ mes-' many supporters to take a stand 11 1 1 II Oil the battleship and its crew of ged the plane for on Vietnam independent of the the mission We put some holes administration to show he Is bn ingtonBnreani A Marine A4 Skyhawk jet pm- man" and to attract the A $3182800 pointed the enemy targets n-si since Korea 'anti-war group within the Dem- was approved through a withering antiaircraft was the New first erratic party the Amislad Urbanfire as New guns war assignment since she: Humphrey said fie was paying Project in Sintnn Rep belched 63-foot clouds of smoke shelled Wonsan Harbor 13 years for a half-hour of prime tfievi of Corpus Christiit took exactly 64 seconds for ago the day before the Korean sion time in order to tell the vm-was the shells to hit the targets 12 armistice ers story uninterrupted hv of Housing and Ur-miles from the posi-1 Rear Adm Sani Moore of protesters and demonstrators" Development Robert Ction four miles offshore Rugby Texas commander of or second-hand Young he had ap- the first five rounds I surface vessels in the 7th Fleet grant rcportcd: the target it expressed satisfaction with per-j Humphrey noted that Priv-i- 1463-acre area Is bounded exist any They! See SHELLS Page I6A See HUMPHREY Page Itt by East SintonJ the south by Fourth! the east by South! Railroad Avenue! Street and on the' northwest by the Mis-j right of way is predominantly! and an estimated 172 have to be rclocal-! foderal law those displaced be relocated in and sanitary" housing estimated $302800 has for the relocation families the site on the Nueces River has increased by $185 million JIM WOOD I crease a new total of $31 mil-the bureau's $525 million figure The cost of building a dam at bon was cited for Choke Canyon were estimat'd at $13 5 million The Choke Canyon figures are Tha (n considered firm because the Bu- The aPPralsas' were taken to the hospital a tale of a day spent in a tightly closed truck with temperatures inside soaring unbelievably high began unfolding Since about 2 am Monday the 46 men had been tightly sealed in the truck before being discovered late Monday afternoon by city officers answering a complaint about a fight Immigration officers indicated this particular was part of a ring illegally transporting Mexican nationals across the United States and they had been working on the case for some time but didn't know about this particular locally According to interviews with various hospitalized and jailed Mexican nationals the men See DEATH Page 16A Goldberg Wins Delay Of New York Strikes NEW YORK (AP) Mayor ambassador to the United Na- punch" against the city without John Lindsay a city wide tions agreed reluctantly to spelling out details request to HUD-to a new total of $71 million funds to develop a according to figures presented local 2485-acre tract including the last night to the City Council reau strike behind him won a reprieve Monday in a new mu serve Lindsay as chairman of a special two-man mediation pan- of Reclamation to which san(l an( Rravc deposits interests are looking to! produced a figure of $23 million according to Townsend's rqiort This total includes IS per cent extra to cover administrative and engineering costs which the bureau figures into all projects Relocation rots were increased from $128 to $179 million This total includes $131 million for highways: $27 mil- lion for railroads $sOflOOO for new land appraisal figures Using the previously quoted 1 figure of $525 million plus in-i1 creased right of way cost Town-1 well treatment and $L3 million send cited a figure of $62 relocations Townsend lion said that the cost of highway The city staff anticipating relocation could be substantmlly what the final new bureau figure reduced by cooperative action of will show increased relocation counties involved and the cast substantially and added in State Highway Iparlment in The 10500-memhcr UFA had announced it would continue to fight fires with the expiration of its contract at 8:45 am Tuesday but would abandon clerical nl otkcr nonemergency duties The 10000 garbagemen were on record as prepared for a strike at midnight a duplication of last mne-day walkout That strike led to 15 days in jail for USA president John DeLury and an $80000 fjne gainst the union for vioia- nicipal a contrail wage el member jj Vincent deadlock with 42000 uniformed policemen firemen and sanitation workers The Republican mayor called in Arthur Goldberg who prevailed upon the Benevolent Association the Uniformed Association and the Uniformed Sanitation-men's Association to extend their con'racts with the city for the time being They had been due to expire within nine hours McDonnell state mediation board chairman told the mayor very anxious to accept the assignment" Goldberg said will be difficult" A veteran of many a labor-management impasse Goldberg added that he took the job only on assurance that present con- not! tracts would be extended to give his panel time to tackle the Sonic Showers Mi hi Forecast Weather Slap on Page 2A Mostly cloudy and mild with a few widely scattered showers is the forecast for Corpus Christi and vicinity through tomorrow High temperature today will be in the mid 80s with a low tonight in the low 70s Winds will be light and vari-able becoming mostly easterly at 8 to 16 miles an hour today and southeast at 10 to 20 miles an hour tomorrow The Weather Bureau forecast a 20 per cent probability of 1463 acres for which the agency ipproved money In Slnton a spokesman for the project who had not officially been notified speculated that HUD may be funding only part of the project now and will grant additional funds later Three elementary schools Austin Odem and Bowie are in the tract which wre expected to be demolished for the con struction Sinlon urban renewal officials had been notified by federal officials that any school built by the school district to replace schools now located in the target area'nght of way cost for a new right will earn 100 per cent credit jof way total of $84 million Esti-The school district figured on mating that construction costs $400000 for the three schools 'and cost of interest will in used for a dam at the Choke Canyon site on the Frio River above Three Rivers The new calculation by Cit Manager Marvin adds $21 million to the Choke Canyon estimate for increased was $525 million A cost figure of $284 million has been re-sums for increases in construe- Seating locating tion of a state law banning strikes by public employes As the garbagemen's strike deadline drew near they rejected a city offer of $625 a year key issues of wages The PBA's contract covering 22000 policemen had a midnight expiration date and the union had threatened a of each other beginning at midnight Goldberg a Democrat for mer US secretary of labor Supreme Court justice and US In any event councilmen concluded that thev are now looking Page 141 tion and interest casts for a new total of $71 million The right of way costs used in' ana tomorrow See DELAY Page lli showers today.